On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Alan Bell <alan.b...@libertus.co.uk> wrote:
> On 19/11/11 20:33, Chris Rowson wrote: > >> >> >> I did wonder if anyone on the list had responded to the Cabinet Office >> consultation :-) >> >> >> >> I am kind of involved in the process (funny how Ubuntu ended up on the > list isn't it? . . .) > > It is hugely political, and a bit "Yes Minister"ish but yeah there are > issues with the way we interpret the European legislation here, but that is > OK. To clarify the "product" thing, my understanding is that they are not > going to mandate particular licenses, the lawyers advice is that they think > it might be open to legal challenge if they did a procurement and specified > they wanted something with a GPLv3 license for example. Funnily enough what > they can do is specify in a tender stuff that looks a lot like the four > freedoms as business requirements if they want to. > I was at a meeting at the Home Office on Wednesday, next one is in January > some time but I expect to have other stuff to say before then about the > future maintenance of the options list in particular. > > Alan. > > Thanks for clarifying the 'product' thing Alan, that's really useful :-) Chris
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